Re: Backing up

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > I was wondering just what Linux programs will backup a Linux partition 
> > to a CD. I know about Taper and Dump, but they are designed 
> > specifically for Tape-backups. I may get one later, but now I do have a 
> > CDR-W CD drive that I use for backups on my regular TOS desktop. 
> xcdroast. You are now my official tester ;-)
> I dont know if we have xcdroast for slink, but we have it for potato. Please
> confirm that it is not working (I once tried some time ago). Michael, are
> you listening? There are still problems left with glibc2.0, no need to
> introduce more... I asked some time ago weather somebody could confirm my
> xcdroast problem, but till now nothing...

What's the problem? I doubt I can confirm or deny it; there's no glibc 2.0
anywhere I could use. 

And I'd have suggested tar cvf /dev/cdrom, of course. 

	Michael